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What is it, Polish Orthodoxy?

20:26 14.06.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

What is it, Polish Orthodoxy?

"An Orthodox Pole," sounds as unusual as a "Russian Catholic." The Polish national character is as inseparable from Catholicism as the Russian character is from Orthodoxy. But there is not only a Catholic Poland, but an Orthodox Poland.Who ever happens to have been in eastern Poland, could see Catholic churches …

«Intuitive Havana», by Maria Valdez

13:08 03.06.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

«Intuitive Havana», by Maria Valdez

“...With her art, this talented and original girl has paved another scenic bridge between Moscow and Havana, between Russia and Cuba." That thought haunted me when a few days ago I viewed the paintings of the young (and beautiful!), Moscow artist Maria Santiagovna Valdez, in the Phoenix exhibition Hall. Talking …

Europe: from mistrust to mutual understanding

16:16 25.04.2013 Andrey Davydenko

Europe: from mistrust to mutual understanding

An international conference on "The role of parliamentary institutions in building a Europe without dividing lines" was held in St. Petersburg by the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (IPA CIS), and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). This year, the PACE …

Brazilians also want to come to Sochi

13:00 16.02.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

Brazilians also want to come to Sochi

What sports do we associate with the giant tropical nation of Brazil? In first place, of course, is football. Also volleyball, basketball, Formula 1 and other types of racing. Also beach volleyball and beach football, mini-football, futsal, martial arts, wrestling, capoeira, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed styles.... And, yet, "tropical" Brazilian …

Language and Geopolitics

0:44 16.02.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

Language and Geopolitics

They say that war is the continuation of politics only by other means. It is equally true that language is a continuation of politics, and the ancient Roman proverb, "who rules, creates the religion" can be safely reinterpreted, saying "who rules, creates the language." The intellectual image of a country …

A date with another Nicaragua

0:08 21.01.2013 Alexander Moiseyev

A date with another Nicaragua

Moscow - Managua - Moscow I am walking through Managua ... and I still cannot believe that the last time we met was 20 years ago. And all around me it is not the same Nicaragua, with which I once had many journalistic dates; it is a completely different country. …

Tomatoes from Morocco

16:49 17.01.2013 Sergey Filatov

Tomatoes from Morocco

Moscow-Morocco-Moscow Photo by author Such was the destiny of this correspondent’s duties that I was to travel to Morocco on a regular basis over the years, and oranges along with Tangier no longer induce in me such a severe emotional reaction. Over the years the borders have opened, and now …

Ivanov- Šainović: The Russian James Bond

16:52 16.01.2013 Vladislav Gulevich

Ivanov- Šainović: The Russian James Bond

In Athens on January 7th, 2013, the 70th anniversary of the execution by the Nazis of British intelligence agent number 033V, Jerzy Ivanov-Šainović, was solemnly marked. This man's name is known to almost every Pole and Greek, but it is unknown in Russia. He was an extraordinary man: multilingual (he …

Russia Opens the Year of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

16:53 04.07.2012 Alexander Moiseyev

Russia Opens the Year of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Acclaimed Columbian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez turns 85 The Year of Márquez was inaugurated in Moscow at a ceremony held at the Cervantes Institute in connection with the birthday of the author to whom the readership has long granted the classic status. The agenda for the …

NATO Switches to Smart Defense

16:54 23.05.2012 Sergey Filatov

NATO Switches to Smart Defense

The May 20-21, 2012 NATO summit which convened in Chicago, announced the Alliance's strategic turn to defense on the worldwide scale. The forum further rolled out the smart defense concept which, as NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen explained, implies 'a renewed culture of cooperation'1. The alliance, according to its Secretary …

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